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Neuropeptides

"Neuropeptides" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Peptides released by NEURONS as intercellular messengers. Many neuropeptides are also hormones released by non-neuronal cells.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Neuropeptides" by people in this website by year, and whether "Neuropeptides" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 86 publications over 25 distinct years, with a maximum of 8 publications in 2001
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